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The Musei of Cameroon

The Musei of Cameroon, numbering approximately 86,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Chadic people of Cameroon's Far North Region, living mainly in the southern Mayo-Danay area near the Chad border; they speak Musey, a Masa-branch language closely related to neighboring Masana. They mostly adhere to Animism and Musey is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Musey (mse)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 86,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG012519
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

90%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Musey
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Musey Speakers

Media Resources in Musey:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Musey:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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Or check out the Musey bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Musei are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Musei:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Musei of Cameroon

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
readMatthew 5:6

Pray for those who are lost to desire righteousness and to be filled with the peace and purpose that only comes from following Jesus.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
readPsalm 57:10

Pray that God will work, even in the hearts of hard-to-reach people, and that they will rejoice in His steadfast love and faithfulness.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
read2 Corinthians 5:17

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will understand and experience the truth that in Christ, they are a new creation, and the old has gone and the new has come.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Banana Across Countries (ROP3 - 100945) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▲
MuseiPG012519MuseiCameroon86,500No Longer UnreachedMuseyAnimism
MuseyPG011312MuseyChad549,000No Longer UnreachedMuseyEthnoreligion

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